also sprach Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.15.0725 +0200]: > I expect either one would work well. I tried both and ended up with whereami, > but YMMV. With whereami, I was also able to understand what was happening in > the scripts despite being fairly ignorant of such things, and was able to > quickly customize them to my purposes.
yes, i am tending towards whereami myself. > By the way, whereami also does the cable-detect business; it is called by > "testmii" in the detect.conf file. great! > I am really looking for a program that can figure out automatically whether I > am using the wired or wireless adaptor in my laptop (usually to the same > network), and make the connection accordingly. you should be able to identify the adapter by MAC address, no? > Ideally, I would bring both up and let the ether sort them out. Unfortunately, > the only reliable DHCP client I have found for my system is pump, and pump > doesn't like having two interfaces up at the same time (neither works). I > have found dhcpcd and dhclient to both be "hit and miss" whether I will get > an IP address or not. i think they both work, but each has registered a default route. insert them both and show me the output of /sbin/route -n after some seconds. > So, I am fiddling around with whereami to do this; check for a wire, if so > bring it up. If no wire, drop eth0 and bring up wlan0. Solves the "pump" > problem; now all I have to do is get it to find the wireless card on boot. i will have the same problem to solve. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
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